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indoctrination

Getting to the bedrock of naturalism

May 25, 2011 by Randal

This is the final installment in my dressing down of The Atheist Missionary’s slapdash approach to the pedagogy of his children. We saw him dismiss the resurrection because New Testament historians are supposedly constrained by religion and institutional affiliation to affirm the things they do. (This bizarrely contentious series of asertions demosntrates that the discrimination against “religion” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agnosticism, atheism, indoctrination, naturalism, pedagogy, skepticism, The atheist missionary

Do Atheists discriminate?

May 25, 2011 by Randal

Of course. More exactly, some do and some don’t. Just like some Christians discriminate and some don’t. (I chronicle both types of discrimination in You’re not as Crazy as I Think.) The real question for the present moment is this: how do atheists commonly discriminate? In the last couple weeks I’ve been focusing on some key […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, discrimination, faith, immigration, indoctrination, religion, theism, xenophobia

The Atheist Missionary continues to justify his prejudices

May 25, 2011 by Randal

Why do I keep dumping on poor Atheist Missionary? Is it because I have a curious, morbid fascination in an intelligent denizen of western civilization defending  his prejudices in a painfully ad hoc manner? In part, perhaps. But that’s not the whole story. The real lesson here is that we all attempt to justify our […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, dogma, education, indoctrination, naturalism, pedagogy, social epistemology, The Atheism Missionary

Royal flushes, resurrections, and the things you teach your children

May 24, 2011 by Randal

The Atheist Missionary’s criteria for what he would teach his children has continued to evolve (or devolve, I’m not sure yet). That’s a good thing because it is important for him to work out the principles that guide how he raises his progeny. The key issue concerned past event types that are unique and unrepeatable. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: education, historiography, indoctrination, naturalism, pedagogy, resurrection, worldview

Would you teach your child that Great Grampy got a Royal Flush?

May 23, 2011 by Randal

Occasionally a line of questioning / dialogue opens up in a thread which deserves to be put in the spotlight. This is one of those cases. It all began yesterday when The Atheist Missionary questioned me on what it is appropriate to teach a child. I’ve reproduced the nuts and bolts of that conversation below. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: education, epistemology, indoctrination, miracle, pedagogy

Entomophobia meets Reason: A teachable moment

May 22, 2011 by Randal

Jerry Rivard responded to my criticism of the terrible advice Dawkins gave to his daughter by asking: “So what would your advice be to your daughter?” Good question. Here’s an eminently practical response. Just this morning we were driving along when my nine year old began “freaking out” in the back seat. “What is it?” I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: education, epistemology, faith, indoctrination, rationality, reason

The letter Dawkins wrote, and the letter Jerry Rivard would like to think Dawkins wrote

May 21, 2011 by Randal

Jerry offered some interesting comments in response to my recent critique of Dawkins. They were well formulated and deserve to be pulled up on stage to perform a couple numbers with the band. “So come on up Jerry’s comments!” (Randal extends his hand and helps the nervous comments up on stage.) Jerry’s comments begin: “Sometimes, when […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: authority, epistemology, faith, indoctrination, Jerry Rivard, knowledge, rationality, Richard Dawkins, tradition, truth

Indoctrination in Focus on the Family’s “The Truth Project”

January 14, 2011 by Randal

Friends, Romans, Triablogue Posse, I will be returning later today to some of the comments that are in the threads like overripe fruit laden on the vine. But for now I wanted to draw your attention to a journal article I wrote for Christian Scholar’s Review in 2009 which I just uploaded to the academic […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Focus on the Family, indoctrination, propaganda, The Truth Project, worldview

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